You missed the point of my statement. (Or you're just trying to see if we'll buy off on a red herring.) As a reminder, I said: "Don't get so lost in the MIT data, sailingfun. There's more to the story than that."

The difference between sailingfun using MIT data and me using the data presented in the SWAPA/AirTran document is that the latter shows actual average pilot compensation, i.e. W2. Sailingfun's beloved MIT data comes from Form 41, which doesn't have all the context needed to determine whether it's really an "apples to apples" comparison of what one airline's pilots actually make on average versus another. The SWAPA data is actual stats showing what their averages were at the time of publication. The fact that it was presented in their AirTran Welcome to SWA sales pitch is irrelevant... i.e. either the data is correct or it is not. Are you saying it's incorrect and they just made up those numbers? If so, I'm assuming you have proof of that, right?